Shia Target Killing
Lahore, May 14, 2004: 6 members of Shia family shot dead
Date : May 14, 2004
Location : Lahore
Casualties :6
Gender : male , female , other ,
Narrative of the Event
Six members of a Shi’ite Muslim family, including two women and two children, were found shot dead in their house in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Friday in a suspected sectarian attack.
The hands and feet of the victims, including a seven-month-old baby girl, were bound. All had been shot in the head.
Police said the words “Shi’ites are infidels” was spray painted on the walls of the house on the outskirts of the city.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but police said they suspected sectarian motives.
“Our first suspicion is that it is sectarian terrorism,” police investigator Shafqat Ahmed Chaudhry told Reuters.
“The family ran a primary school for Shias and police said anti-Shia slogans were daubed across the walls of their home”, Quoted BBC.
The complainant in the Mughalpura killing of five members of a Shia family and a maid, was found murdered in Harbanspura area on Saturday.
Police said that engineer Nadeem Haider, 40, the elder brother of slain Sajjad Ahmad Shah, left his house at 6pm by his car.
Passersby spotted his body near the Harbanspura canal and called the police who removed it to the city mortuary. His car was also found parked nearby.
According to sources in the mortuary, the body bore three injury marks on neck and wrists, apparently inflicted with a heavy and blunt weapon.
In a related development police arrested five members of outlawed Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan on Saturday in connection with the murder of the six people in Mughalpura.
Sajjad Ahmad Shah, 36, a textile mill manager, his wife Saima, 27, six-month-old daughter Fatima, brother-in-law Naveed, 32, sister Sobia, 25, and a teenage maid Sonia were found murdered in their house-cum-school on Friday.
The police picked up five members of the banned SSP from Mughalpura and Ghaziabad. Three of them were, however, released after interrogation. The other two, Amir Muawia and Rustam, were still in their custody.
Sources:
1-https://www.geocities.ws/sipahisahaba/2004/14052004.htm
2-http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3713761.stm
4- https://www.dawn.com/news/394260/death-of-six-complainant-also-found-murdered
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